Does anyone else get these? I've found that any free-glutamate food causes me to twitch (in moderate doses) and fatigue (in high doses)
The worst offender so far was a packet of chips (yeast), and a very MSG-laden Italian restaurant meal.
I realize that the mayo-MSG myth is half based off racism, but I think there's a kernel of truth, which is that too much free-glutamate just causes cellular excitation. Meaning the cell is expending energy faster than it can create it.
Nope but I'd caution against jumping to a mechanistic explanation. Bodies are dumb and complicated. If you do experience an effect and it actually is glutamate, it could just as easily be that the microbes in your gut are doing things that mess with your CNS. Or any other host of things. Aside from MSG, all of those other things are whole-ass foods that could also be allergens for you (MSG also could be but it's not super likely for a given person to be).